25.5% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tanunda · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Tanunda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people volunteer in Tanunda compared to the rest of the country. About 25.5% of residents give their time to others, which is well above the South Australian and national figures. This reflects a strong trend of community involvement, despite a slight dip in numbers since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most other areas. The 25.5% rate is 11 percentage points higher than the Australian average, although it has fallen from 28.8% in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More residents do significant unpaid housework than in most areas, with 26.3% spending 15 or more hours a week on it. Meanwhile, 26.5% provide unpaid childcare—roughly the same as the state and national figures—and 12.7% provide other types of unpaid care.
12.7% ▲ +2.3%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% ▼ -9.1%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 32.2%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.3% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
About 3.8% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is slightly above the national figure of 2.8% and is about the same as the South Australian average of 3.2%.
3.8%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Tanunda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415041/tanunda/topic/community